I'm a guest with Jordan at The Balanced Blond Podcast. We talk about my lifelong relationship with wellness, hitting rock bottom, how spirituality helped get my mind right, wellness trends, a balanced approach to detoxing, the Bulletproof Diet, and much more.

Had a great chat with James Swanwick on various topics ranging from addiction, to health, the power of negative emotions and positive thinking. Below is the show breakdown in James' own words:

Everyone has baggage. Everyone feels negative emotions. It is learning how to deal with these negative emotions that is crucial to every individual’s life.

Things from your childhood are oppressive on your current state! Learn what is holding you back, and try to fix it.

We all have different circumstances that have caused negative things to overtake us in our adulthood.

Luke Storey shares the story of his struggle in young adulthood when he constantly struggled with drugs and alcohol abuse.

For ten years, Storey found himself under the influence every single day.

He realized he could not kick the drug habit with his own willpower alone, so he finally attended rehab where he became sober.

Being up in your head, and living in the future will create emotions within you that will create negatives and rumination within you.

Principles of health and spirituality will ultimately help you build the life that you want.

Luke went from being destructive and negative to a person who radiates mindfulness, and positivity.

Tips on changing your life from Luke:First tip: Physical piece. Getting the toxins out of the body. Cleansing, getting on a clean diet. Figuring out what causes your body to thrive.Second tip: Emotional piece. Power of positive thinking. Resisting complaining about anything or anyone.Third tip: Spiritual piece. Applying self honesty and humility in all things. Not being defensive, and being honest. Learning to see yourself for who you are.

Luke Storey has worked extensively to become a better version of himself. The desire to do so is innate, but something he has had to continuously work on. He challenges us all to follow in his footsteps, and find the better us.

I was recently interviewed on one of my favorite shows, The Less Doing Podcast. I’ve been obsessed with this show for a couple of years and even had their host Ari Meisel on my show a while back.

In this interview, I talk about how I went from deadbeat, burnout musician to being a successful entrepreneur and health and wellness expert.

It’s a meaningful, yet compact, 20 min piece.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How I turned from a homeless musician in Hollywood to a successful stylist • The lifestyle of artists in late 80s to early 90s • What is School of Style and how it started • Peak Time vs. the Brain-Dead time • How outsourcing helped me focus on the more important tasks • The key to utilizing tools that can contribute to running a businesses • The structure of the industry when you work as a fashion stylist • How meditation increases productivity • My Top Three Pieces of Advice to help you be more effective

If you know someone who is interested in productivity, outsourcing, and kicking more ass in life, in general, this is a great episode to share with them. Think of two people who dig this type of thing, and forward this email to them now. Then give it a listen yourself.

Click HERE to listen to the interview.

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Last week I stopped by the studio at Extreme Health Radio to record an interview about health for one hour. It’s one of my favorite shows, so I was excited. Perhaps a little too excited.

What happened was I ended up talking about a lot more than health. Somehow the conversation ended up lasting over two hours and managed to travel into some pretty wild and controversial territory. Trigger territory, to be precise.

In a world of politically correct insanity, I find it refreshing to have an open and exploratory conversation once in a while. Even if it does happen to be shared publicly. In fact, I despise PC policing so much, that lately, I’ve taken great pleasure in bringing up topics that tend to get people a bit freaked out. Well, this was one such occasion.

Some of the various hot topics covered were:

Chemtrails/Geoengineering

9/11 Truth

Fake moon landings

Reptilian shape-shifting politicians

Trump/Hillary drama

The Mandela Effect

Drugs and addiction

Staying spiritual and optimistic in a dark and negative world

And of course… every health fad and practice I’ve ever tired

This was one of the most fun, and honest interviews I’ve ever done. It feels so good to keep it real, and to be willing to explore some super freaky territory.

Remember, if you’re sensitive to radical issues- you’ve been trigger-warned.

For the open-minded Life Stylist fan, enjoy.

Thanks for taking the time to read my email, and to join me on this cray cray journey we call human life on earth.

Send this email to someone who likes to get weird. Or even someone who needs to get weird :)

This show is based on addiction recovery. Something I have a tremendous amount of experience with. I was addicted to just about anything and everything one could be addicted to for half of my life. I was one of the lucky few who lived to tell the tale.

That being said, I’ve always felt conflicted about revealing that side of myself, due to a few different factors: Shame and embarrassment being two of them. Fear of being judged, and not being taken seriously in business. Scaring off potential fashion students at my business, School of Style. Turns out, once I did some self-searching I found out that the reasons for keeping this part of my life neatly tucked away were all based in fear. You know what is so ironic about that discovery? Fear is one of the primary motivations for my addiction in the first place! I was terrified to live my life, so I eased the pain by using.

So here I am, on the brink of celebrating 20 years of sobriety and find myself afraid again. If I’ve learned anything in that 20 years, I’ve learned this: fear is not my friend. Fear is not real. Fear is not useful in most situations that don’t involve escaping actual danger. Like getting chased by a lion. Being authentic and vulnerable is not a lion. It just feels like it.

So when Anna asked me to be a guest on her recovery show, I made a decision to do it, knowing that I would likely spill the beans and get into some gory details about my highly checkered past.

And I did. In this interview, I discuss in an intimate manner how I have managed to escape the life of an addict and prosper in so many ways. I also reveal my newest area of personal development: relationships. It seems I still have a lot of work to do in this area, and I’m more than happy to admit it. As the saying goes, “to solve a problem, first you’ve got to admit you have a problem.”

I invite you to join me on this inner journey with Anna, and for god’s sake if you know anyone who has struggled with addiction, please share this episode with them. Forward this email right now. If I can help just one person overcome the challenges that I’ve managed to surmount, it makes all of this terrifying truth-telling worth it.

I'm a guest at my good friend's show: Daniel Vitalis, Rewild Yourself Podcast. We have an in-depth conversation on vulnerability and authenticity in our edited modern world. Always so much fun chatting with Daniel, take a listen.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

Daniel answers your questions on camping sleep positions, sexual mastery, BDSM and ways women can use their femininity to awaken the strong masculine in their man

Ryan and I covered a lot of ground on sleep biohacks and other great topics such as PRP therapy, hydrotherapy, EMFs, fat burning tips, etc. We geek out on some really cool gadgets, you can find links and references on his blog page here.

Some of the topics discussed:

Rubbing Elbows With Fashion and Entertainment Celebrities

Creating the School of Style

How health is born of necessity

From Obsessed on Self Destruction to Obsessed as Feeling as Great as I Possibly Can

Dr. Justin Marchegiani interviews Luke Storey who is a bio-hacking celebrity stylist. Luke shares his healing journey story and how he got to where he is now. He talks about lifestyle hacks where he helps people add all of these different practices and elements into their life through a fully integrated system involving sleep, water, cooking/cleaning products and personal effects, the interior of your car and the mattress you sleep on, as well as meditation practice, mindfulness, looking at spiritual principles and so much more. If you’re interested in becoming healthier mentally, physically, spiritually, listen to this podcast.

Luke talks about how changing his diet and how he recovered by getting off of a high carb diet and a high sugar diet and avoiding gluten and soy as well as avoiding things that are inflammatory. Dr. Justin and Luke also discuss in length about the EMF load, the dangers of smart meters, and ideal lighting environments. Discover how mindset helps drive good health choices.

Celebrity and musician stylist Luke Storey believes in the power of fashion that goes beyond making yourself look good. He believes in its ability to help you present yourself in the best way possible to the world. There’s a certain power that comes with looking good and knowing you look good. Luke’s all about helping you harness that power to boost your career and social life. Even if you aren’t a celebrity or rockstar, there are simple things you do to transform your style, and boost your confidence. In this episode, Luke gives incredible style advice that you especially can’t afford to miss, and how to identify style goals that will convey the image you want to have for yourself. Before you go out and start shopping, Luke advises, you’re going to want to know more about your archetype and your body type and how your style should play off of both of those. Want to know more? Listen in for amazing tips on:

using geometry to create the illusion of the ideal body shape

why tailoring will make all the difference of the quality of the look

what fashion faux pas you absolutely need to avoid

how to know if you have bad style

why hiring a stylist can be a great investment

how to find the “magic color” that makes you look amazing

great brands for all style types with consistently excellent tailoring

Welcome back to part two of my conversation with Luke Storey on setting up a holistic strategy for lifestyle design! Luke has spent the past 18 years developing and refining a robust way of life based on the principles of nature and spirituality, while embracing technology and modern convenience.

In this segment, we focus on our strategies for movement, sleep and meditation! If you missed it, check out part one where we break down our personal strategies and adaptations to modern life using a four elemental structure: Earth, Air, Water, Fire.

In this week's podcast, my good friend Luke Storey joins me for an intimate, peer to peer conversation on setting up a holistic strategy for lifestyle design. Luke has spent the past 18 years developing and refining a robust way of life based on the principles of nature and spirituality, while embracing technology and modern convenience.

Luke and I apply many of the same lifestyle principles to our very different lives, and in this rap session, we have an awesome time discussing our personal strategies and adaptations to modern life. We break it all down for you using a four elemental structure: Earth, Air, Water, Fire.

We cover a ton of valuable, actionable information here, and so we’ve split up this episode into two parts. In part one, we get into our strategies on diet, water, air and sunlight. Stay tuned for part two (coming out next week) for our discussion on movement, sleep and meditation!